Today I Learned

[jedishrfu]

Lets hope its not misused by bad actors as was done with the polygraph tests in the past.

I can see the tech used as means to talk with patients in a coma or some sort of paralysis.

 

[BWV]

The average Canadian lives in Michigan

 

[BillTre]

The average Canadian lives in Michigan

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Looks like the Houghton in the upper peninsula.

Also Detroit is north of Windsor.

 

[Bystander]

The average Canadian lives in Michigan

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"...lies, damned lies, and statistics."

 

[KingGambit]

Are you sure you heard that right? There is no research to back up...

What did you mean "heard that right"? With his right or left ear?

 

[TonyStewart]

Google I/O plans to implement AI across all its 50? Apps, all new mobiles, and all new developer tools.

This fresh approach introduces features like easy printing of related photos, generating thoughtful yet artificial text, expanding storage in G Drive, and boosting Google's revenue.

AI serves as a creative tool, compensating for skill and creativity deficiencies while enhancing Google's profitability. Initially free, users may later opt for monthly payments to access more storage or view additional ads, reminiscent of disliked live TV experiences.

The OpenAI trend aids in finding quick answers, and creative instant art, but constructive actions matter more than this transient entertainment.

 

[fresh_42]

The OpenAI trend is the last nail in the coffin of independent thinking!

This alone is sad, but even sadder is the fact that AI is so stupid, superficially, and usually wrong.

 

[Hornbein]

Google I/O plans to implement AI across all its 50? Apps, all new mobiles, and all new developer tools.

This fresh approach introduces features like easy printing of related photos, generating thoughtful yet artificial text, expanding storage in G Drive, and boosting Google's revenue.

AI serves as a creative tool, compensating for skill and creativity deficiencies while enhancing Google's profitability. Initially free, users may later opt for monthly payments to access more storage or view additional ads, reminiscent of disliked live TV experiences.

The OpenAI trend aids in finding quick answers, and creative instant art, but constructive actions matter more than this transient entertainment.

It appears that this was generated by ChatGPT.

 

[pinball1970]

The OpenAI trend is the last nail in the coffin of independent thinking!

This alone is sad, but even sadder is the fact that AI is so stupid, superficially, and usually wrong.

You seen this guy? He works through past exam papers. EDIT just to add this was live a few minutes ago but I am tied up at work so I will watch later

 

[Swamp Thing]

TIL how some people use molten lead to clear invasive insect colonies

Edit: It's aluminium, actually.

 

[pinball1970]

TIL how some people use molten lead to clear invasive insect colonies

Edit: It's aluminium, actually.

Wasps too

 

[jack action]

TIL a new definition for the acronym AI: Artificial Imbecility

 

[pinball1970]

I know that is a horrific way to kill a living organism, fire and heat. My worst nightmare.
Melting point of Aluminium is 660C so death would be quick. @fresh_42

 

[fresh_42]

I know that is a horrific way to kill a living organism, fire and heat. My worst nightmare.
Melting point of Aluminium is 660C so death would be quick. @fresh_42

Yes, but it seems so useless. I never liked these.

 

[pinball1970]

Yes, but it seems so useless. I never liked these.

It does work Fresh.
Not everyone has a mobile oven that can convert Aluminium to a liquid in a crucible, I will give you that but the technique works and is quick.
Wasps are not vectors, however, wasps in residential areas on masse can cause problems and be a threat especially to kids, if you watch the link.
unpleasant but necessary to remove them. Rent a kill would put chemicals into the environment.

 

[BillTre]

It does work Fresh.
Not everyone has a mobile oven that can convert Aluminium to a liquid in a crucible, I will give you that but the technique works and is quick.
Wasps are not vectors, however, wasps in residential areas on masse can cause problems and be a threat especially to kids, if you watch the link.
unpleasant but necessary to remove them. Rent a kill would put chemicals into the environment.

I think of hornets as being more of a problem than wasps.
The hornets I have know were more territorial and aggressive in nest defense and have larger nests.

I think what this kind of thing is really good for is visualizing the interior structure of underground nests and passageways of a variety of things. There are not other good ways to do this.
Similar cool looking things form when lightening strikes wet sand and melt some of the sand into glass underground.

Killing underground nest can be done much more easily with a bucket of soapy water. This drowns insects that would be otherwise be resistant to drowning because their waxy surface repels water.

 

[BillTre]

NY Times review of a new Documentary on Yogi Berra: “It Ain’t Over”

 

[pinball1970]

I think of hornets as being more of a problem than wasps.
The hornets I have know were more territorial and aggressive in nest defense and have larger nests.

I think what this kind of thing is really good for is visualizing the interior structure of underground nests and passageways of a variety of things. There are not other good ways to do this.
Similar cool looking things form when lightening strikes wet sand and melt some of the sand into glass underground.

Killing underground nest can be done much more easily with a bucket of soapy water. This drowns insects that would be otherwise be resistant to drowning because their waxy surface repels water.

As quick? Even with a surfactant? I admit the vid goes for the spectacular but the structure is cool.
That side chamber, a wasp nursery?

 

[fresh_42]

Wasps and hornets are both annoying. The latter is a bit more dangerous. I know why I like bumblebees:

They are chubby.
They don't annoy you.
They don't attack you.
They only mind their own business.
They are always relaxed.
They don't invite their families to the meetings.

 

[BillTre]

As quick? Even with a surfactant?

Submersion in detergents or alcohol are the preferred methods for killing insects in labs. Freezing might be up there too.
This is much cheaper and safer than getting a bunch of metal, melting it, and dumping it on the nest.

I don't have too much empathy for insects.
They are pretty dumb compared with mammals and they probably don't have much of an inner life.

 

[TonyStewart]

It appears that this was generated by ChatGPT.

Nope, it was I being almost Grammarly correct, but good try @Horbein

 

[Hornbein]

Nope, it was I being almost Grammarly correct, but good try @Horbein

Well, "users may later opt for monthly payments to access more storage or view additional ads, reminiscent of disliked live TV experiences" seems GPT-like. Why on Earth would a user pay extra for a disliked experience?

 

[TonyStewart]

Well, "users may later opt for monthly payments to access more storage or view additional ads, reminiscent of disliked live TV experiences" seems GPT-like. Why on Earth would a user pay extra for a disliked experience?

It's the You-Tube model to join to avoid ads that I predict AI rollout on Google I/O, Koogle, to entertain users with more content that they may enjoy interrupted by ads or else join a club to avoid the ads or GB of storage from cloud drives that fill up with memories that you must pay a monthly fee for.

 

[KingGambit]

TIL how some people use molten lead to clear invasive insect colonies

Edit: It's aluminium, actually.

Yes, I've watched it before. Perhaps the other video. And they call it, "Art" of ant nest.

 

[Hornbein]

Today I learned that Napoleon married Marie Louise Léopoldine Françoise Thérèse Joséphine Lucie, who bore him an heir. Once he was exiled she secretly and bigamously married someone else.

I have read that in the 19th century upper class women sometimes married so they could have socially acceptable affairs. Though they had to wait until they bore an heir before the fun could decently begin. Victoria Woodhull thought this was hypocrisy and so headed a free love movement. She was one of those people whom everybody in the West knew, along with Jane Digby. But I digress.

Needless to say, such history is not taught in schools.

 

[pinball1970]

Wasps and hornets are both annoying. The latter is a bit more dangerous. I know why I like bumblebees:

They are chubby.
They don't annoy you.
They don't attack you.
They only mind their own business.
They are always relaxed.
They don't invite their families to the meetings.

I do not want to kill them but they still scare me.

 

[Rive]

I know why I like bumblebees:

They are chubby.
They don't annoy you.
They don't attack you.
They only mind their own business.
They are always relaxed.
They don't invite their families to the meetings.

Though I've seen some bumblebees furiously buzzing and then attacking/annoying each other.

You just might not be chubby enough to be recognized as one of them

 

[jack action]

TIL I learn about linking directly to a specific portion of text in a web document, without requiring the author to annotate it with an ID (only Firefox doesn't support it ). The following is an example:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Text_fragments#:~:text=The syntax, follows:

 

[DrGreg]

Today I learned that the PracticalCryptography website does not support HTTPS.

 

[OmCheeto]

TIL that I'm(b. May 1959) older than lasers(b. May 1960).

Twasn't quite as bad as when I learned I was older than the Flintstones(b. Sept 1960).